- Via The Conversation: Elon Musk and Giorgia Meloni: a burgeoning friendship the world should keep an eye on.
- Via WaPo: RFK Jr.’s daughter-in-law meets with Trump’s chosen CIA director about possible job.
- Via Politico: Was mocking Musk a mistake? Democrats think about warmer relationship with the billionaire. It may well be, he said understatedly, that Musk has too much power and influence. The ongoing Dawn of the Oligarchs is more than a little disconcerting.
- Via Cleveland.com: Bill forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other requested treatments nears finish line. Because, of course, that’s how medicine should work.
- Via the NYT: Colleges Warn Foreign Students to Get to Campus Before Trump Takes Office. This is good advice. I will also add that the first Trump administration had a clear and detrimental effect on the enrollment of foreign students. This meant the loss of revenue by schools and communities, a diminution of US global influence, and a loss of talent for US employers. So much winning!
- Via Popular Information: Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library. It is, to me at least, an infuriating story and underscores, yet again, that reactionary forces in American life are the ones who want to shape what we see and think, despite their protestations to the contrary. First and foremost, being exposed to the existence of LGBTQ+ persons does not cause homosexuality, et al. It isn’t a disease that one catches. Second, if you don’t want your kid to read a book, then don’t let them have that book, but don’t block everyone else. Third, if you really think you can control what your kids see and learn, you are fooling yourself.
- Via CBS News: Trump uses photo of himself with first lady Jill Biden to announce new fragrance line. The grift never stops.
- Speaking of which,
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Third, if you really think you can control what your kids see and learn, you are fooling yourself.
I remember pictures of naked women from Playboy and other skin magazines being passed around by boys when I was in grade school in the ’50s.
I also remember getting on the school bus to go home in the 6th grade and the bus driver quickly hiding the copy of Playboy he had been looking at as he had not noticed me getting on the bus.
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@CSK: Given that, worldwide, there are way fewer cities that have Trump hotels than cities that don’t, the question has never crossed my mind.
Then again, when my sister-in-law and I met in Seoul last fall, I recommended that we book postage stamp-sized rooms in a yogwan for $23/night, so I’m probably not Trump’s target market segment.
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Sad to say, I think, for instance Fetterman’s approach to Musk is reasonable. Even though Musk himself is not reasonable. But let people figure that out for themselves.
However, I don’t think “jumping around the stage like a dipshit” hurt Harris/Walz that much, either.
The thing about Musk is that he is easily manipulated, provided you understand what spectrum people are like. Really, it’s so easy.
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How would the Ohio ivermectin law work? Let’s say that your doctor in Zanesville, OH, thinks that the scientific evidence doesn’t support the use of ivermectin. Obviously you can look for a doctor who does, but if that doctor is not credentialed at the one hospital in town, can some outsider bypass the credentialing process? Does this outsider have to have a medical license? Is there some malpractice immunity for the ivermectin doctors? Is it safe to give paxlovid, a proven med, simultaneously? Pregnancy increases the risks of Covid; can doctors give mifepristone to all women of reproductive age who get Covid?
I have no knowledge about Zanesville; just picked it off a map. I did notice that 2/4 of the pulmonary/critical care doctors listed at the hospital there have Arabic names. Will they be immune from deportation? -
At most hospitals you can still order Ivermectin if you want even though the literature shows it doesnt work. For the large majority of patients it is safe even if it doesnt work. However, we really shouldn’t have people ie other doctors interfering with pt care. I think it may be reasonable to have the family bring in their own doctor but they must take over all care. Nurses, therapists, etc should also have the option to opt out of caring for those pts and the family could bring in their own staff also. Credentialing should be the responsibility of the state and the results of that credentialing should be public. People should know that many/majority of docs advocating for Ivermectin have sketchy practice backgrounds.
Steve
